Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific
Translation: Twinkle, twinkle little star
Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate ensemble
Translation: Birds of a feather flock together
Surveillance should precede saltation
Translation: Look before you leap
Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
Translation: Beauty is only skin deep
It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitously departed lacteal fluid
Translation: Don't cry over spilled milk
Freedom from encrustation of grime is contiguous to rectitude
Translation: Cleanliness is next to godliness
The stylus is more potent than the claymore
Translation: The pen is mightier than the sword
It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers
Translation: You can't teach an old dog new tricks
The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit
Translation: A watched pot does not boil
All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous
Translation: All that glitters is not gold
Where there are visible vapors having provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration
Translation: Where there's smoke there's fire
A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles
Translation: Too many cooks spoil the broth
Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally
Translation: Charity begins at home
Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony
Translation: Dead men tell no tales
Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles
Translation: People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
2007-09-07 06:34:49 · 13 answers · asked by ǝuoʎʞɔɐʍ 7 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I can't think of a thesaurus that would lead you into all that. You have an impressive vocabulary, Madam.
Note to detractors: It is Words and wordPLAY.
2007-09-07 07:06:38 · answer #1 · answered by picador 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Perfect English?
Scintillate, scintillate asteroid minific
Translation: Twinkle, twinkle little star
Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate ensemble
Translation: Birds of a feather flock together
Surveillance should precede saltation
Translation: Look before you leap...
2015-08-06 15:27:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All that stuff, while entertaining, is far from perfect English.
Well, OK, it's perfect English grammatically, but perfect English also has to be easily understood - that's why we see people moaning about poor spelling and punctuation all the time.
There's an example I learnt at school -
"We offer you our heartiest felicitations on this, your natal day, and trust that its recurrence will not be seldom".
It was presented to us as how NOT to use English. (I won't insult you by telling you what it means!)
2007-09-07 08:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sadly, some people seem to feel that the verbosity of your examples is somehow commendable. It isn't, of course, it's contemptible gibberish, which, I think, is your point?
Anyway, there probably isn't such a thing as perfect English 'cos it's a fluid entity.
2007-09-07 07:19:41 · answer #4 · answered by J S 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What you wish to refer to as "perfect" English is, in fact, simply "unnecessarily complicated" English. =)
Someone did *imply* that something nearer to "perfect" English would be simpler, and easier to understand.
English, in and of itself, borrows many words from foreign languages, and has words spelled the same which mean different things; and have words which sound the same, spelled differently; and many sentences or phrases have secondary, or hidden, inferences and meanings... it's no wonder that foreigners have trouble learning the English language in the first place!
=D
2007-09-07 10:24:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm glad they shorten them up so I can understand what the heck they mean!! I don't ever want to speak perfect English!! I would need a dictionary ever time I opened my mouth!! hahahaha!!
2007-09-07 06:46:31 · answer #6 · answered by Polar Molar 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Bacon, Egg, Black Pudding, Potato Scones, Tomatoes and Mushrooms - all fried, Buttered Toast and Marmalade, Tea or Coffee
2016-03-13 05:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. . . sounds like the , erm, uumm. fluctuations of grammar may, errrr, take, sort of, ..............
No, I haven't a clue, perfect? Probably, but I'd need a degree in English language just to argue the point. lol
Nice, more please.
2007-09-07 09:36:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to disagree, perfect English would be easy to understand. This lot is confusing and difficult to understand even for an English person.
2007-09-07 06:56:32 · answer #9 · answered by dave 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
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2007-09-07 10:11:45 · answer #10 · answered by whenyou'restrange... 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋